““Don’t forget, the Protestants of the Reformation often hated beautiful things.”
Reactions to sin often swing to the other extreme. Doesn’t make either right.”
Sorry but you need to be more specific. Beauty is not sinful. If you want to say that reformers were reacting to abuses of authority and etc. in the church, and in their blind rage they became extreme and also attacked beautiful art that was designed to help people meditate on the glory of God, I get it. But even so it sure calls into question the motives behind their initial reaction.
“Sorry but you need to be more specific. Beauty is not sinful. “
As I specified just upthread, the reaction was not against beauty or art. It was a reaction to the Roman church that had spawned all kinds of abuses. When the church refused to even discuss its abuses, the reformation movement was spawned. It too had abuses that swung in the opposite extreme.
I support neither the original idolatry and failures of the first, nor the overreach of the reactionary movement which were failures.